The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-02
WEALTHY GYPSIES.
Nomads Who Have Acquired Considerable
Property in This Country.

Property in This Country.
OF Gypsies known to be Gypsies, and
most of whom participate in the regu.
lar summertime wandering life, thou
sands have acquired competence and
wealth. Henry Stanley, of St. Paul,
owns farm and city property amount
ing to over $4,000. The Cooper fam
lily, of East Somerville, Boston. are
altogether worth $250,0OO. Henry
Jowles owns seven acres of land and
several houses within the corporate lin
its of Springfield, ILL.,, and Richard
Jowles has nearly a dozen houses near
the rolling mills in that city. Joseph
Crabtree-whom Gypsies hint as being
distant relative of a noted actress
owns city property in Liverpool, En-
gland, and one of the largest sale stables,
as well as much other property, in
Washington. Uriah Wharton possesses
fully $780, 900 worth of real estate in
and about New York City. Lewis But
Ter owns farms near Cedar Rapids, Ia,
and on Alum Creek, near Columbus,
o., and is worth $4,000. William
Hall has large and valuable planta-
ton near Holly Springs, Miss. John
Harrison owns great many fine houses
in Washington, considerable property
at Pittsburgh, and is counted worth
S150,000. Hedry Wharton has $25, 900
worth of real estate and houses At
Springfield, ILL.,, and Robert Smith of
the same place, is worth $4,000. Rich
ard Reynolds owns one of the finest
farms in Seneca County, Ohio, near
near Swope's Corners. John Boswell
owns a large brick block in Toronto,
Canada, and is one of the moneyed men
of that city. John Broadway, of Buffalo,
is said to be worth $50, 600 in farm and
city property; and another of the Broad
ways owns as much more property in
Detroit and St. GATHERINGS, Canada
One of the Boswells owns sixteen acres
of valuable land adjoining the fair
grounds at New Albany, Ind, and con-
siderable city property; while Rebi
Boswell has a northumberland farm
and valuable tavern stand, two miles
from ST. Thomas, Canada. John Kidd
owns large grist-mill, paying him an
annual rental of $1,000, and splen-
did farm at Oakland Station, near
Rock Island. Elias Brewer owns fifty
thousand dollars worth of city property
in Milwaukee; Spring Brewer owns a
hotel and other property at Flint, Mich.
and Fred Brewer has large stables and
much other property at Fort Scott,
Kan. William Stewart owns a we'll
stocked ranch, sixteen miles from Aus
tin, Tex; and Job Stanley has several
thousand dollars of wood land in the
same locality. The Stauleys and Rey-
nolds, of Ohio, are very rich and Henry
Stanley, of Evansville, Ind, owns farms
and town property; while Thomas,
Mark and Henry Jefs, and the Pear
sons, with the Harrisons and Jowles, of
Dayton, O., own nearly all the finest
! farming land for six miles north OF that
city, town property in Dayton, and to-
gether are worth certainly a half mil
lion dollars. This will appear incom-
prehensible to many, but l make it as a
statement of fact that could fill every
column of this page with names, ad-
dresses and property estimates of nearly
a thousand Gypsy heads of families in
this country whose combined wealth
will exceed $4,000, 900. Edqar l..
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